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Wednesday, 27 April 2016

Boxed in

Well, tonight turned into quite a significant session.

I really want to try fill the coolant system and check for leaks before I go much further but to do that, I really need the firewall in place and that really needed the pedal box fixed. I realised that I've gone to some effort, like others, to use rivnuts for the firewall to make it easily removable in the future BUT unlike others, I've got a header tank and a brake fluid reservoir bolted to the firewall, so removing the firewall in future, even with rivnuts, isn't going to be that simple. Ah well...

Spent a while staring at the pedal box, trying to work out if I could safely rivet it in place. Pedals done, clutch and accelerator cables in place, brake lines in place - couldn't think of a reason not to, so out came the gunk and rivets.

After that, I went a bit nuts and bolted the firewall down and fitted the pipes for the brake fluid as well as a few small jobs - bent the clutch cable bracket a little to give a better angle, grommet in the firewall for the brake fluid level wire and fitted the final pipe in the cooling system, from the top of the thermostat to the top of the header tank.